Effectively Wild Episode 2341: The Second Half Has Started
Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast
Ben Lindbergh, Meg Rowley
4.7 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 93 minutes
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Summary
Ben Lindbergh and Meg Rowley banter about Kutter Crawford’s mysterious wrist accident, then discuss Wander Franco’s conviction (14:58) and Walker Monfort’s promotion (19:57) before checking in (33:36) on the players and teams on pace to overperform or underperform their preseason projections the most at the precise halfway point of the season. Finally (1:12:44), they answer listener emails about “secret teams” in MLB, throwback, quiet games at the ballpark, and Denzel Clarke.
Audio intro: Jonathan Crymes, “Effectively Wild Theme 2”
Audio outro: Cory Brent, “Effectively Wild Theme”
Link to WhatIfSports offer page
Link to Crawford story 1
Link to Crawford story 2
Link to Sale accident
Link to Barmes story 1
Link to Barmes story 2
Link to Kent story
Link to injury cover-ups
Link to Franco story 1
Link to Franco story 2
Link to Monfort story
Link to halfway point
Link to Rays playoffs story
Link to projections comparison spreadsheet
Link to preseason projections
Link to on-pace projections
Link to preseason playoff odds
Link to listener emails database
Link to Belanger club
Link to most PA with low OPS+
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to know about baseball. |
| 0:03.0 | I want to know about every single team. |
| 0:06.0 | I want to know about stat glass, |
| 0:09.0 | some fan graphs, and about, oh, oh, tommy. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm a very modern fan reading up on all the analytics. |
| 0:18.0 | I want to know about baseball presented by Patreon supporters of Effectively Wild. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and welcome to episode 2341 of Effectively Wild, a baseball podcast from FanGrafts presented by our Patreon supporters. |
| 0:39.1 | I am Ben Lindberg of the Ringer, joined by Meg Rally of Fangraphs. Hello, Meg. |
| 0:42.5 | Hello. |
| 0:43.5 | Can I tell you about the newest baseball mystery that has consumed my mind? |
| 0:48.3 | Sure. |
| 0:49.3 | So Cutter Crawford, Red Sox pitcher, is having likely season-ending right wrist surgery. |
| 0:57.1 | And the Red Sox are declining to say how he hurt his wrist. |
| 1:04.1 | So he had an off-field accident. |
| 1:07.3 | That is what Alex Cora has divulged. |
| 1:09.8 | But he has declined to say what the nature of that accident was. |
| 1:15.5 | He said, it wasn't irresponsible. |
| 1:19.3 | He said, I'm not going to get into details. |
| 1:23.5 | It's not disappointing, as in it's not disappointing to the organization. |
| 1:28.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:28.2 | Like he did something that was disappointing. |
| 1:29.8 | Obviously, it's disappointing that he hurt himself. |
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